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Padstow lifeboat

Padstow lifeboat station
RNLI Lifeboat station
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Padstow Lifeboat Station
Country England
State Cornwall
Town Padstow
Location Padstow Lifeboat Station, Trevose Head, Padstow, UK
 - coordinates 50°32′56″N 5°1′18″W / 50.54889°N 5.02167°W / 50.54889; -5.02167Coordinates: 50°32′56″N 5°1′18″W / 50.54889°N 5.02167°W / 50.54889; -5.02167
Founded 1808
Owner Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Visitation Summer Months only
Padstow Lifeboat Station is located in Cornwall
Padstow Lifeboat Station
Padstow

Padstow lifeboat Station is based at Trevose Head west of Padstow. The current lifeboat is a Tamar class boat called "Spirit of Padstow".

The building was designed by Royal Haskoning engineers, with sub-consultants Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole architects, and John Martin Construction Ltd. The building won the 2007 Structural Award for Community Structures.

The Hawker's Cove station was known as the number 1 station from 1899-1938 and the number 2 station from 1938-1962.

Station closed 1962

This was known as the number 2 station from 1899 - 1938 then the number 1 station from 1938-1962

Station closed 1967


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